Notice ID: BARDA-2022-01
“The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) intends to negotiate a 5-year single award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) to develop an online and mobile phone-based application. The Resource Information Tracking and Medical Communications Application (RITCA) will serve as a disaster response tool for a regional area within the broad range of the medical responder community. This application will allow for synchronous and asynchronous communication for peer-to-peer consultation between clinical providers, serve as a repository for clinical capacity and capability data and present this data in a dashboard, and allow for communication of Essential Elements of Information (EEI) across health care and federal, state, and local response personnel.”
“Statutory authority: 41 United States Code (U.S.C.) 253(c)(3)(B) as set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 6.302-3 Industrial mobilization; engineering, developmental or research capability; or expert services.”
“This authority allows an exception to full and open competition when it is necessary to award a contract to a particular source in order to: “establish or maintain an essential engineering, research, or development capability to be provided by an educational or other nonprofit institutional or a federally funded research and development center.” [Ref. FAR 6.302-3(2)(ii)].”
“Using this authority is appropriate due to BARDA’s need to maintain an essential capability for engineering and developmental work to produce a pilot in a regional disaster health response system and demonstrate its full functionality…”
